2014 Graduate Student Fellows in Democracy & Markets

The Tobin Project awards fellowships annually to graduate students across disciplines and institutions whose research addresses the relationship between democracy and markets. In monthly forums throughout the academic year, the students present and discuss their work with one another for uniquely interdisciplinary feedback. Below are the 2014 fellows in the Democracy & Markets program.

Puneet Bhasin

Puneet Bhasin

BROWN UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Maximizing Shareholder Value and the Political Economy of Control Financialization

Mara Caden

 

Mara Caden

YALE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Making Money: Labor, Coinage, and the Geography of Currency in Britain and its Empire, 1690-1740

Zane Curtis-Olsen

Zane Curtis-Olsen

YALE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Reclaiming the "City of Homes": Squatting and Housing Protest in Philadelphia, 1964-1996

Erik Duhaime

Erik Duhaime

MIT, MANAGEMENT: BEHAVIORAL AND POLICY SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Naïve Realism and Taxation: An Experimental Investigation

Chase Foster

Chase Foster

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: Regulating Regulation: The Politics of Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Consultation in the Regulatory State

Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Gould

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT & HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

PROJECT TITLE: Toward a Democratic Theory of Civil Enforcement

Oliver Hauser

Oliver Hauser

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, PROGRAM FOR EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS

PROJECT TITLE: Prosocial Decision-Making Under Inequality

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY

PROJECT TITLE: The Contours of Corporate Influence Across America's Statehouses

Matthew Maguire

Matthew Maguire

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: From Private Regulation to Public Policy: The Case of Corporate Non-Financial Reporting

Samuel Milner

Samuel Milner

YALE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Guideposts to Where? The Industrial Response to the Johnson Administration's Price and Wage Policies

Manisha Padi

Manisha Padi

MIT, ECONOMICS

PROJECT TITLE: Regulator or Middleman: An Empirical Study of Government-Run Exchanges

Benjamin Schneer

Benjamin Schneer

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: The Rise and Fall of Congressional Petitioning

Beth Truesdale

 

Beth Truesdale

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: Finding the 'Sweet Spots' Where Evidence Matters: When does science influence child and family policy in the United States and Britain?